Luke Goebel with Pardeep Toor Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Luke Goebel, acclaimed author and screenwriter celebrated for his unflinching honesty and innovative storytelling, is joining us on Tuesday, May 26th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location to share about his book, K*ll Dick. He will be in conversation with award-winning writer, Pardeep Toor!

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed Hardcover copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

This event includes an opportunity to meet the authors, participate in an audience Q&A after the conversation, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!

We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

ACCLAIMED AUTHOR OF FOURTEEN STORIES, NONE OF THEM ARE YOURS, CO-WRITER of the films CAUSEWAY and EILEEN

RECIPIENT OF PRESTIGIOUS RONALD SUKENICK INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE AND JOAN SCOTT MEMORIAL FICTION AWARD

Most Anticipated Book of 2026 by LIT HUB and PLAYBOY, and featured in the NEW YORK POST'S “31 Page-Turning New Thrillers to Read.”

"Marked by deliberate instability, the ambitious satirical novel K*ll Dick skewers contemporary literary seriousness even as it participates in it." —Foreword Reviews

A fever dream, K*ll Dick is a literary thriller that plunges into the chaos of Los Angeles, where addiction, privilege, and corruption combust.

At nineteen, Susie Vogelman should be coasting: she’s an NYU dropout with no responsibilities, endless prescription pills, and a Brentwood estate to waste away in. But Los Angeles has other plans. A string of brutal murders targeting addicts spreads through the city, and Susie’s ivory tower begins to crumble. The headlines point too close to home: her father’s ties to an opioid empire, a sinister secret society, and her own complicity in the systems holding it all together.

Then there’s Peter Holiday, a disgraced professor running a rehab scam so audacious it’s almost admirable. When their lives collide, Susie and Peter are dragged into a web of privilege, corruption, and violence, where every escape leads deeper into the rot.

Dark, satirical, and razor-sharp, K*ll Dick is a modern literary thriller that unflinchingly dissects wealth, exploitation, and the perilous line between survival and self-destruction.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

LUKE GOEBEL won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize and the Joan Scott Memorial Fiction Award for his debut novel, Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours. His screenwriting credits include Eileen, starring Anne Hathaway and McKenzie Thompson, and Causeway, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry, who received an Oscar nomination for his performance. He is also known for his role as co-editor at The New York Tyrant and work with Tyrant Books. He lives in Pasadena, CA with his wife, fellow author Ottessa Moshfegh.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER

Pardeep Toor is the winner of the PEN American Dau Prize, and his writing has appeared in the Best Debut Short Stories 2021, Southern Humanities Review, Electric Literature, and Longreads. His debut short story collection, HANDS, was published in April 2026.

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